Remember How I Broke Your Heart
Healing Echoes: Breaking Hearts, Finding Joy
Lyrics
It was a grey sky on a Monday.
Describes the setting of the event, a gloomy Monday with a grey sky.
There was nothing more I could say
Expresses the speaker's inability to convey more in the situation.
so I called you from Ohio in a parking lot of a motel.
Specifies the location, Ohio, and the context of the call from a motel parking lot.
I remember how you greeted me
Recalls the way the other person greeted the speaker during the call.
like you knew we were not meant to be on this phone call
Highlights the recognition that the relationship was not meant to continue.
after two years of the fighting, of the mad tears.
Reflects on two years of conflict and emotional turmoil.
Remember how I broke your heart?
Prompt to recall a specific moment of heartbreak.
After all that we've been through, all the damages I bestowed on you,
Acknowledges the damage caused in the relationship and the speaker's awareness of it.
all the jealousies you engraved in me.
Refers to the mutual exchange of negative emotions, particularly jealousy.
The end was near, it had to be.
Recognizes the inevitability of the relationship's end.
So I called you from Ohio in a parking lot of a motel
Reiterates the setting and purpose of a call from Ohio, emphasizing the motel.
to say nothing and yet everything.
Describes the intention to convey both nothing and everything during the call.
I remember I was trembling.
Recalls the emotional state of trembling during the conversation.
Remember how I broke your heart?
Reiterates the instruction to remember a specific instance of heartbreak.
Remember how I broke your heart?
(Repetition of line 17 for emphasis.)
Now I'm drinking to forget you, spending money, got a tattoo.
Details the speaker's coping mechanisms, such as drinking and getting a tattoo.
Stayed a weekend up in Oregon, bought a plane ride to an island.
Narrates the speaker's travels and experiences post-breakup.
But I stopped first in Toronto, met a man who almost let me go.
Introduces a moment in Toronto where the speaker almost let go of a new relationship.
Four years later he married me. I am happier than I dreamed I'd be.
Shares the positive outcome of the new relationship, leading to marriage and happiness.
So you see I had to let you go in a phone call
Explains the necessity of letting go in a phone call from Ohio, filled with silence and apologies.
from Ohio filled with silence and apologies.
Reiterates the atmosphere of the call, emphasizing silence and apologies.
Still I loved you as you loved me.
Acknowledges the enduring love between the speaker and the person addressed.
Remember how I broke your heart?
(Repetition of line 17 for emphasis and closure.)
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